Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business.
The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
History
The company was founded in 1999 by Eric Allman in Emeryville, CA. Eric also created sendmail, an open source mail transfer agent while he was a student and a staff member at the University of California, Berkeley. It is the commercial version of the open source version of sendmail.
Managing Email
In 2005, Sendmail released the Sentrion email infrastructure platform to address the need for full-content message inspection, enabling policy-based delivery of all human and machine-generated email.Sendmail guards e-mail, Network World
Hybrid Cloud
In 2012, Sendmail partnered with MimecastMimecast and Sendmail announce enterprise email collaboration, CloudPro to provide hybrid-cloud email security, archiving and continuity as some predicted that 2013 would see more organizations implementing hybrid cloud computing strategies2013: Year of the hybrid cloud, Network World to reduce cost and complexity of their messaging infrastructure.
Machine-Generated Email
In 2012, Sendmail released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control) amid growing security, compliance and other concerns posed by the growth of application-generated email and migration of email to the cloud.Email in the Cloud: Avoid the Pitfalls, Windows IT Pro
Acquired by Proofpoint
In 2013, Sendmail was acquired by security-as-a-service company Proofpoint, Inc.
Timeline
1998 Released Switch, the commercial MTA 2000 Released Sendmail Milter API 2001 Released Mailstream Manager for email security and compliant policy management 2003 Released Mailcenter for the enterpriseSendmail Launches Mailcenter for the Enterprise 2005 Shipped first Sentrion™ applianceSendmail Inc.'s Sentrion appliance: All-in-one e-mail security, GCN 2006 Celebrated 25th anniversary of internet email (MTA)Your mail server sucks!, InfoWorld 2007 Shipped Sentrion MP ‘inbound & outbound’ Appliance 2008 Released Sentrion MPV and Sentrion™ MPQ 2009 Released Sentrion Cloud Services (SaaS)Sendmail introduces protection for the cloud, IT Examiner 2010 Opened Sentrion App Store (www.SentrionAppStore.com)Sendmail launches 'app store' for enterprise, TechWorld 2011 Sendmail teams with Harris and BMC on trusted enterprise cloudHarris, Sendmail and BMC team up on Trusted Enterprise Cloud, ZDNet 2011 Released Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise Application Suite 2012 Released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control)Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek 2013 Acquired by Proofpoint, Inc.
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